Covid-19 news

A number of insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds have continued to report small increases in losses and reserves set related to business interruption claims from the Covid-19 pandemic, we understand, which continued to weigh on results over the last two months.

A new start-up aims to enhance the economic resilience of the world’s businesses, by filling business interruption coverage gaps using advanced technology such as machine learning and by leveraging insurance-linked securities (ILS) structures to connect this emerging risk class with capital market investors.

The recent ruling from the UK Supreme Court, that found largely in favour of insurance policyholders in the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA)’s business interruption insurance test case appeals, is not expected to drive significant additional losses through to reinsurance, Fitch Ratings has said.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda-based reinsurance firm and third-party capital management specialist, held true to its forecast and returned some capital from its Upsilon collateralized reinsurance and retrocession vehicle to investors around the renewals, underwriting a slightly smaller portfolio for the vehicle as a result.

Jamaica continues to work with the World Bank on a first catastrophe bond for the country the Finance Ministry has said and reflecting the importance of disaster risk financing, in recent weeks it has received a roughly $3.5 million payout under its parametric CCRIF insurance coverage.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda-based reinsurance firm and third-party capital management specialist, has revealed that it raised an additional over $730 million of capital for third-party managed joint ventures and insurance-linked securities (ILS) vehicles at January 1st 2020.

Vesttoo, which uses proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions to help companies assess and transfer risks to the capital markets, has published mortality risk models and forecasts for the U.S. including COVID-19 impacts, and offers the resulting index for mortality risk transfer transactions.

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda headquartered global specialty insurance and reinsurance firm, has pre-announced catastrophe losses for the fourth-quarter of 2020, revealing $125 million of additional impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic and up to $80 million from natural catastrophes during the period.

After Friday’s ruling from the UK Supreme Court found largely in favour of insurance policyholders in the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA)’s business interruption insurance test case appeals, insurance carriers RSA Group and QBE, have said that at least a portion of the increase in gross pandemic losses due to the ruling are likely to be […]

Hiscox Group, the insurance, reinsurance and third-party capital backed underwriter headquartered in Bermuda, is again the first to release a statement following this morning’s announcement that the UK Supreme Court found largely in favour of insurance policyholders in the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA)’s business interruption insurance test case appeals.